![]() ![]() ![]() "A Magnificent Spread" and "Eating the City" unpack the strangeness surrounding food rituals. The unsettling "Poochie" features two elementary school girls who adopt a suit-wearing former businessman as a pet when they suspect his escape, the girls confront the idea of owning any living thing. "A First-Rate Material," set in a society that repurposes the body parts of dead people into home goods, features a woman who desperately covets a ring made from human bone despite her fiance’s steadfast disapproval. ![]() “But…actually, they’re always changing….It’s always been that way.” In her debut short story collection, the author of Convenience Store Woman (2016) investigates the validity of our most basic rituals-how humans eat, marry, procreate, and die-and incisively explores the rich, messy stuff left behind once they’re violated. “Everyone always says that things like common sense or instinct or morals are carved in stone,” Yamamoto, an affable 39-year-old businessman, muses. A singular collection that probes the most foundational rituals of human society. ![]()
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